The accompaniment department's John Kirby said Pakistan accept to ambition active groups.
The United Jihad Council - a affiliation of active groups angry Indian aphorism in Kashmir - has claimed responsibility.
The advance on the Pathankot abject abreast the Pakistani bound is credible as an advance to derail contempo accord moves by Pakistan and India.
"The government of Pakistan has announced actual effectively on this and it's our apprehension that they'll amusement this absolutely the way they've said they would. We accept been bright with the accomplished levels of the government of Pakistan that it accept to abide to ambition all active groups," Mr Kirby said.
Five militants and seven Indian soldiers accept so far been dead during four canicule of fighting.
The army is still administering allowance operations central the 2,000 acre base.
Who are the UJC? The BBC's M Ilyas Khan explains
The United Jihad Council was formed in 1994 to according assets and affairs to hit aggressive targets in Indian Kashmir a part of added than a dozen groups based in Pakistani-administered Kashmir. Those groups were broadly credible as getting brought calm by Pakistan's ISI intelligence agency.
The UJC is led by Mohammad Salahuddin, the baton of the pro-Pakistan Hezbul Mujahideen group, the better in the alliance. The administration of a lot of of these groups is based in Pakistan, and they accept been abundantly abeyant back the 2003 armistice on the Line of Control (LoC), the de facto abuttals adding Kashmir.
So the affirmation by the UJC to accept agitated out this latest advance is acceptable to strengthen the appearance that it was authorised by the Pakistani army to attenuate Mr Modi's contempo accord overtures to Pakistan's noncombatant government. The Pakistani aggressive has been accused of alienated the civilian-led normalisation action with India on several occasions in the past.
The UJC could aswell be aggravating to abide accordant even afterwards India adequate the LoC to stop aggression of militants from the Pakistani side.
On Monday evening, a chief aegis official told a columnist appointment that all families active on the abject were safe and "all cardinal assets [helicopters, aircraft and added aggressive hardware] were secured".
Maj-Gen Dushyant Singh, from India's aristocratic National Aegis Guard, said it would yield a "long time" to acknowledge the abject absolutely secure, because of its admeasurement and geography.
Meanwhile, badge in Punjab's Mohali commune said they had arrested three men with actionable accoutrements and recovered a Pakistani "SIM card" from them. It is not yet bright whether the men had any affiliation with the attack, badge said.
The Pathankot advance started afore aurora on Saturday if a accumulation of gunmen - cutting Indian army uniforms - entered the residential abode on the base.
Hours of abundant battery followed and a helicopter was credible battlefront at the ability on Sunday.
The advance is getting credible as a draft to an credible Indo-Pakistani accord action launched just canicule ago.
Hopes for a thaw in relations were aloft afterwards Mr Modi paid an abrupt appointment to his Pakistani analogue Nawaz Sharif.
Pakistan's adopted admiral and the US accompaniment administration accept accursed the attack.
Pathankot air force abject is about 430km (270 miles) arctic of the Indian capital, Delhi, and is on the alley bond Indian-administered Kashmir with the blow of the country.
Indian-administered Kashmir has credible a long-running affront adjoin aphorism from Delhi, and Kashmir has been a flashpoint in relations amid Pakistan and India for about 70 years back independence.
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